dog water

[sochr000]

So, I'll admit, I'm lazy, and that's where this question comes from.  My dog drinks from my toilet, so much so that I have just stopped filling her water bowl.  My other dog owning friends out there have continually given me grief for not stopping her/putting the toilet seat down. 

As long as the toilet is kept clean, is there any problem with this water as compared to the water from the sink?  I argue that it comes from the same source, and is probably just as clean due to running through the same pipes.  Am I somehow poisoning my dog or are the people I know just alarmists?

[guythathunts]

Do you poop in your sink? You poop in your toilet right? Do you use dish soap and warm water to wash it out? Does your dog ever lick your face? Would you want to eat out of a bowl that someone pooped in.. even if you didn't know any better? Do you ever use chemicals to clean your toilet? Do you pee in it? Do you puke in it? If none of this occurs then yes, it is just like the sink. if not, put the lid down and fill the dog bowl. Doing this every day can will pry result in a sick dog, and it will be all your fauld. It is mean. No joke, I think you can go to jail for this. You are forcing your dog into unsanitary living conditions for survival. Any yes I agree. You are lazy. Why would you tell anyone this????

[BIG 6 BUCK]

My Dads dog drinks the poop water also,  he will drink it dry before he even thinks about drinking out of his water dish.  But he also likes to eat cow pies and horse apples,  dead things he finds out hunting,  and even nasty pond water when we duck hunt even though we have water with for him to drink.  I say what the heck let em drink............ he licks is own butt. 

[22lex]

Big 6

Hilarious, but true!

[sochr000]

I use Vinegar to clean the toilet (mostly due to my aversion to industrial cleaning chemicals) and use basically the same rationale as BIG 6, my dog will eat poop, even when food is clearly present.  I was asking more for some sort of experience/proof instead of an angry, baseless reaction(you can't go to jail for it, due entirely to it being clean water easily available).  I know that I didn't specify that I wanted a calm response, I guess that'll have to be my addition to a signature.

Now, if anyone has some experience and/or proof and would share that with me, without flaming, I would appreciate it.

[NDGUY]

poop and pee, pies and apples, ponds and puke....just put down the poop lid, pups problem gone

[NDGUY]

seriously!! there is no problem with them drinkin out of the toilet most cleaners are pet safe. Just remember to flush

sorry about the last post just could not hold back

[BIG 6 BUCK]

Just brought my dog in the house for the night.................. He lays down on the floor and cleans, licks, the old escape hatch.  Finishes up with that and gets up to check on my kids playing in the bathroom.  Now keep in mind my dog just drank from the water dish and has NEVER drank from the porcelain god,  but sure as the day is cold,  the lid was up and he stuck his nose in it to check it out............. Kids came running out "The dog is drinkin out of the potty"  Like I said he has NEVER done this before,  I just hope the Kids dont start doing it

Stay warm and Drink up

Big 6

[lenny7]

Doing this every day can will pry result in a sick dog, and it will be all your fauld. It is mean. No joke, I think you can go to jail for this.

The dog we had when I was growing up drank from the bowl all the time and never got sick.

And no, you won't go to jail for letting your dog drink from the toilet...that's a good one.

Our dog now loves to eat deer turds.  I'd rather have him drink potty water than chew deer turds.

[guythathunts]

I know you got all defensive and scared by my post, but I can't help you with that. Maybe deep down you are mad at your Dad... I don't know... Just trying to help... What I can say is if you don't fill your dogs bowl with water, but instead just leave the seat up... that is just plain dumb. It sounds like you have put in more time and effort into combating your pet owner friends, and going on line to see if what your doing is ok, than it would take just to fill the one bowl and put a lid down on the other. You wouldn't be asking this question if you thought there was nothing wrong with what you are doing.

 
PS. If you are going to admit stupidity, expect to be treated accordingly. Mayby I will put this in my signature line! 

[sochr000]

I previously did fill her waterbowl, it went unused, as far as putting the seat down, she would proceed to whimper near the toilet, even with a full water dish.  I am asking this because the dog is over 5yrs old now, I got her a year ago from someone I don't know.  I was asking the question because if there is nothing wrong with it, then there's no sense in me fixing something that isn't broke.

As far as being "defensive and scared", hardly, attacked and insulted, definitely.  And please keep the psychology you don't fully understand to yourself Dr. Freud. 

[22lex]

The two mastiffs I used to have years ago every now and then snuck into the bathroom and took a couple of licks out of the poopy water, without us knowing until afterwords when they drooled all over. I didn't let them by any means, but saw no reason to rush them to the vet after each poop water slurp they snuck in. I really don't think it's going to harm them any more than eating horse turds, drinking out of swamp water, chewing on a carcass they found in the ditch, or licking their a#$.

I tried finding the law in Minnesota that explains how you can go to jail letting your dog drink out of the toilet.

It's not there. Unless Peta made something else up.

[JCAMERON]

I used to have a dog that would eat anything. She would eat any feces she could find. A hunting buddy of mine was making number 2 in the field and she didn't even hesitate to crawl under him to put it down. She would eat the nastiest things she could find, and she never got sick. The worst that i could see happen is them throwing up afterward.
It might be a bit lazy and ignorant to just put the water dish away and leave the seat up, but from what I'm reading I don't think that's what your doing. IMO, if you don't have little kids around, I'd just leave both options available to the dog and never leave a floater!

[PJ Maguire]

Do you poop in your sink?

 
Hilarious!

[guythathunts]

As far as being "defensive and scared", hardly, attacked and insulted, definitely.  And please keep the psychology you don't fully understand to yourself Dr. Freud. 

"Rationalization is the cognitive distortion of "the facts" to make an event or an impulse less threatening. We do it often enough on a fairly conscious level when we provide ourselves with excuses. But for many people, with sensitive egos, making excuses comes so easy that they never are truly aware of it. In other words, many of us are quite prepared to believe our lies".

 ~ Sigmund Freud

Say what now?

[HD]

Please keep comments relevant to the original post.

Thanks

[JCAMERON]

Sometimes a cigar... is just a cigar.  Sorry HD, I just had to.

[sochr000]

Well, thanks for the help those of you that were helpful.  Unless someone here has any example of it being detrimental then I'll return to my world of wanting to have sex with my dad 

Lol

[NDGUY]

 

[sochr000]

read about Freud a bit, he was obsessed mostly about people's obsession with early traumatic experiences, thus linking them forever sexually to the person who traumatized them.  He thought that anal-retentive children were doing it for both the pleasure of feeling control, and for the pleasure of, well, a full turd-cutter.

All in all, the majority of new psychologists have called Freud (and his daughter) wrong on almost every account.

[22lex]

So what does turd cutting/freud have to do with poopy water?

[sochr000]

absolutely no idea.

[Cody Gruchow]

there is nothing wrong with the dog drinking out of the toilet and it isnt agains the law. is there any harm in it, not that i have seen, my grandparents dog lived for 14 years and it drank out of the toilet every single day